Project Description

This performance reflects on the way black bodies are sequestered, seized, and abducted; and the consequent plunder and despoil of the cultural and material wealth of the African Continent. This work is not reduced only to the history of the transatlantic slave trade; it is meant as a critique of the present situation of constant vulnerability and crisis in which Africa and other nations continue to be indiscriminately exploited by the postcolonial and neoliberal policies of USA, Europe and other parts of the developed world.

Seven small diamonds will be surgically inserted under my skin. An American white man will open the wounds and will remove, one by one, each of the diamonds placed in different parts of my body. Once the procedure is completed, I will remain for a period of time lying down with the open wounds.